Dolphins reportedly talking trade for OT Albert … Everyone pretty much expected Miami to include veteran LT Brandon Albert in their first round of salary cap cuts earlier this week when they did release DE Mario Williams. However, the Dolphins hung onto Albert’s rights reportedly when at least one other NFL team came calling about the possibility of… Read More »
Pigskin ponders 2017 offensive skill positions … With the scouting combine set to get underway in Indianapolis in just over 10 days, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has some thought-provoking thoughts on where the offensive skill positions for the 2017 draft, including the QBs, RBs, WRs and TEs, currently stand.
Top 2018 prospect takes leave of absence … LSU has announced that star redshirt sophomore DE/OLB Arden Key, a potential top 5 pick at the 2018 draft, is “taking some time away” from football for undisclosed personal reasons, but remains on the team. According to his father, Key is ‘fine’. Of note, Key was suspended from the Tigers’… Read More »
Combine roster position notes … A couple or three interesting observations from the list of players who will be at the combine which gets underway the last day of the month. (We also note that the combine roster has only been released on NFL.com and has yet to be released on the actual Combine website and they may… Read More »
Combine invitees list released … The list of over 300 prospects invited to this year’s scouting combine has been released. The combine gets underway on February 28th and runs through March 6th. Who gets invited to the combine is important because the list reflects to a large degree which players NFL teams want to see in Indianapolis based… Read More »
Tide LB Foster latest to miss combine workouts … According to a report by Adam Caplan of ESPN, star Alabama MLB Reuben Foster, a top 5-10 prospect for the 2017 draft, recently underwent rotator cuff surgery on his right shoulder and will not be available to participate in on-field workouts at next month’s scouting combine, although he will… Read More »
Pigskin posits Top 100 … With the Senior Bowl in the rear view mirror, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has posted his pre-combine Top 100 ranking of prospects overall for the 2017 draft.
CFL announces combine-lite invite list … With the NFL scouting combine set to get underway in just over two weeks, we are still waiting for the official list of players to be in Indianapolis at the end of the month to be released. This year’s combine runs from February 28th to March 6th. Meanwhile, the CFL, which holds… Read More »
Potential #1 pick steps in it just a bit … In a video posted Friday by ESPN, Garrett, an Arlington native who is projected to be #1 pick overall at the 2017 draft, pleaded with Dallas owner Jerry Jones to trade up to the top spot to draft him. Garrett later added that he hoped the the Cowboys… Read More »
New 49ers coach and G.M. to meet with QB Kaepernick; roles clarified … Updating that story earlier this evening on San Francisco QB Colin Kaepernick walking back published reports that he would be opting out of contract early next month, new 49ers’ G.M. John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan confirmed at a joint presser earlier today that… Read More »
Washington, SF lead draft in picks … We have published the first – and still very unofficial – list of picks for each team for the 2017 draft. These include the first three rounds which are now set save for a coin flip for the 14/15 picks, as well as any compensatory picks at the end of the… Read More »
49ers’ QB walks back opt out talk … Sources close to San Francisco QB Colin Kaepernick are saying that he has in fact not decided whether he will opt of his contract this month. There were reports earlier this month that Kaepernick had decided to opt out of his contract and test free agency, but the sources indicate… Read More »
Pats Super again; first selection order set … Congratulations to the New England Patriots who won a ring thumb last night with that dramatic 34-28 comeback, overtime win over Atlanta in Super Bowl LI. The Patriots were down by 16 points with less than 10 minutes to play, but Atlanta got ‘super’ stupid allowing Tom Brady to get… Read More »
Who ya got? … Its Super Bowl Sunday! The NFL season wraps up later today when New England meets Atlanta Super Bowl LI in Houston. Kick-off comes a few minutes after 6 PM ET later this evening. Needless to say its another opportunity for Bill Belichek, Tom Brady and the Patriots to further cement their cred as one… Read More »
49ers to get into Garropolo sweepstakes?? … Draft aside, it looks like New England back-up QB Jimmy Garoppolo will be the hottest player this off-season. Both Cleveland and Chicago, which have the 1st and third picks respectively at the 2017 draft, and now San Francisco appears to be on the verge of throwing their collective hats in the… Read More »
Final thoughts from Mobile … With a week to get some air and gather his toughts, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette weighs in some final thoughts on his week in Mobile covering last week’s Senior Bowl. And we have one complaint to add if Senior Bowl head-honcho Phil Savage or any of his staff are checking in… Read More »
Big Board; positional rankings tweaked … With the post-season college all-star games in the books and the scouting combine coming up, the GBN Big Board ranking the top 200+ prospects overall for the 2017 draft has been updated as have the respective positional rankings (see the drop-down menu above).
Bears reportedly also high on Pats QB Garropolo … For those that didn’t see it earlier in the week, CBS Sports Jason La Canfora is reporting that Chicago is also high on New England back-up QB Jimmy Garropolo, who becomes a free-agent after the 2017 season and likely will be available in a trade this winter. There have… Read More »
Pigskin tweaks all-Senior Bowl team … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette is finally back from Mobile and has updated his All-Senior Bowl team with information from Saturday’s game along with what he saw during last week’s practice sessions.
Injury could keep WMU from combine; WKU OG good to go … There are fears that star Western Michigan Corey Davis, a potential top 10-15 prospect for the 2017 draft, could be forced to miss next month’s scouting combine in Indianapolis because of an ankle injury suffered in pre-draft training. On the other hand, Western Kentucky G/T Forrest… Read More »
Pats back-up QB Jimmy G to Browns rumblings heat up … again … One of the enduring storylines of the off-season that refuses to go away is that Cleveland could be interested in considering trading for New England back-up QB Jimmy Garoppolo to try and answer their glaring issue at the position. The Browns have the #1 pick… Read More »
Senior Bowl DL review posted … The operative word for the defensive linemen at the 2017 Senior Bowl game was potential. In particular, there was no one on the DL in Saturday’s game that came anywhere near close to the kind of dominating performances turned out by guys like Aaron Donald and Ziggy Ansah in recent years, but… Read More »
Top 5 prospects by position posted … With the Senior Bowl in the books, GBN College Football Investigative Reporter Larry Parker has updated his listing of the top prospects for the 2017 draft by position.
49ers name Lynch new G.M. … In a move that caught just about everybody off guard, San Francisco has named John Lynch as the team’s new general manager. Lynch, a perennial Pro Bowl safety with Tampa Bay and Denver, retired in 2008 and has been a Fox analyst since. He has no experience in management or scouting. Lynch… Read More »
On to Indy … With the Senior Bowl now in the books, there will be a little down time for personnel people around the NFL before scouting staffs get back together to start to put together their preliminary boards before next month’s scouting combine in Indianapolis. We are still on the job here at the GBN, though, and… Read More »
